Olympic Weightlifting, World Record - Press by Serge Reding - 228 kg

Official "World Record" in the "Press", lifted by Serge Reding (Des. 23, 1941 -- Jun. 28, 1975) Belgium 502 lbs / 228 kg September 26, 1971 Lima, Peru Record preceded by: Vasily Alexeev -- 227 kg (1971) Record succeeded by: Vasily Alexeev -- 230 kg (1971)

Comments

1. wow -👌👍
2. His silver in 1968 and his press 1971 his best year.
3. holy fuck
4. Amazing. Died of a heart attack age 33. :/
5. I think he would make to lift much biggest weight.He done it so simply.
6. To get perspective here's a view of the same lift from a better angle
   http://www.angelfire.com/mi4/michaeljyu/painonnosto_superraskas/reding_Rdg-prss.jpg
   This is for the confused folks who think this was a military press.
   No it was NOT.  Maybe he could have strict pressed 425 (15 pounds more than Bill March strict pressed weighing 235)   You can find March doing 390 pounds in a faultless style on Google images.  You can also find March doing "layback" (Olympic) presses like Reding did here.  But March did do the 390 strict at 228 pounds and 410 in training with no discernible back bend.  Then also, Scott Norton pressed behind the neck 465 at the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center.  He was also at least 7 inches taller than Reding and Serge could not have PBN close to 465.  Sometimes the USA DOES have the best strength records.
7. Push press, but incredible
8. Alekseev USSR  the BEST
9. incredible
10. the speed on that press is absolutely ridiculous..
11. Imagine being a nightclub bouncer and trying to move him back out the door-----------
12. wow hardcore
13. Awesome!!!!
14. holy fucking shit
15. epic
16. Rippetoe teaches it like this ..
17. Oh my god do I feel stupid right now lol.. Guess I'll have to wait for that powerlifter jump.. When did they eliminate the lift from Olympic weightlifting, because as far as I know nowadays it's only the C&J and the Snatch? I know PL doesn't have the press as an event, and I have no idea why I thought that this was a powerlifting meet. Must have been tired as heel, don't even recall commenting on this video haha
18. watch?v=kdEw3SuaK4c
19. I use both this and Doug Hepburn's big lifts to improve my own. They have very different techniques but they still allow me to understand the movement.
20. First time I've ever seen a powerlifter jump..